Hobo Pyro posted:

burger king. when was the last time you got high and immediately needed burger king.

VikingSkull posted:

Basically, if you say American car manufacturers are "complete poo poo" in TYOOL 2016 you're saying basically the same thing that your dad did in 1981 when he said Japanese cars are cheap steel that rusts and will never take market share from GM

Hobo Pyro posted:

burger king. when was the last time you got high and immediately needed burger king.

Tubesock Holocaust posted:

When was the last time anyone ate at Shoney's? Now there's a company that's slowly rotating towards oblivion.

Also, Old Country Buffet.

Tubesock Holocaust posted:

When was the last time anyone ate at Shoney's? Now there's a company that's slowly rotating towards oblivion.

Also, Old Country Buffet.

Darth123123 posted:

Why would the twin cities require 10 old country buffets? There is only 3 left

Tubesock Holocaust posted:

When was the last time anyone ate at Shoney's? Now there's a company that's slowly rotating towards oblivion.

Also, Old Country Buffet.

Captain Yossarian posted:

I like how circling the drain= brands you don't like. It's a good metric

Professor Shark posted:

Winners is starting to look more and more like K Mart afaic

Tubesock Holocaust posted:

When was the last time anyone ate at Shoney's? Now there's a company that's slowly rotating towards oblivion.

Also, Old Country Buffet.

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The corporation’s entry into Canada was uncharacteristically bold—not just for Target, but for any retailer. Under Steinhafel, the company paid $1.8 billion for the leases to the entire Zellers chain in 2011 and formulated a plan to open 124 locations by the end of 2013. Not only that, but the chain expected to be profitable within its first year of operations.

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Strange things started happening in 2012, once ordering began for the pending launch. Items with long lead times coming from overseas were stalled—products weren’t fitting into shipping containers as expected, or tariff codes were missing or incomplete. Merchandise that made it to a distribution centre couldn’t be processed for shipping to a store. Other items weren’t able to fit properly onto store shelves. What appeared to be isolated fires quickly became a raging inferno threatening to destroy the company’s supply chain.

It didn’t take long for Target to figure out the underlying cause of the breakdown: The data contained within the company’s supply chain software, which governs the movement of inventory, was riddled with flaws. At the very start, an untold number of mistakes were made, and the company spent months trying to recover from them. In order to stock products, the company had to enter information about each item into SAP. There could be dozens of fields for a single product. For a single product, such as a blender, there might be fields for the manufacturer, the model, the UPC, the dimensions, the weight, how many can fit into a case for shipping and so on. Typically, this information is retrieved from vendors before Target employees put it into SAP. The system requires correct data to function properly and ensure products move as anticipated.

A team assigned to investigate the problem discovered an astounding number of errors. Product dimensions would be in inches, not centimetres or entered in the wrong order: width by height by length, instead of, say, length by width by height. Sometimes the wrong currency was used. Item descriptions were vague. Important information was missing. There were myriad typos. “You name it, it was wrong,” says a former employee. “It was a disaster.”

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The foot traffic in the early days was more than expected, which was encouraging, but it didn’t take long for consumers to start complaining on social media about empty shelves. “Target in Guelph, please stock up and fill the shelves,” wrote one aggrieved shopper on Facebook. “How can I or anyone purchase if there is nothing left for me to buy?” Target told the media that it was overwhelmed by demand and made assurances that it was improving the accuracy of product deliveries. The reality was that Target was still struggling with data quality problems that were hampering the supply chain, and it didn’t have time to address the root causes before opening another wave of stores.

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By fall of 2013, Target’s three distribution centres—approximately four million square feet in all—were overflowing with goods. Tractor-trailers sat idling in the yards, waiting to be unloaded. The situation got so bad that Target scrambled to rent a handful of storage facilities to accommodate all of the inventory flooding in. The process of determining which goods to send to these rented facilities was haphazard, making it difficult to track things down later. “It was like a massive black hole,” says a former employee. Another recalls feeling shocked when visiting the rental warehouse in Vancouver. “It was the most rickety, Podunk thing you can imagine,” says the former employee, likening it to the treacherous labyrinthine underworld in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. American expats, accustomed to the efficiency of the U.S. operations, were flabbergasted. Waves of senior staff were flown in from Minneapolis, but because they were unfamiliar with the technology Target Canada used, there wasn’t much they could do.

The issues at the distribution centres caused havoc downstream. Stores might end up with an abundance of some products and a dearth of others. The auto-replenishment system, which keeps track of what a store has in stock, wasn’t functioning properly, either. Like many other parts of retail, replenishment is an exacting science that can go haywire without correct data. At Target Canada, the technology relied on having the exact dimensions of every product and every shelf in order to calculate whether employees need to pull more products to fill an empty rack. Much of that data was still incorrect, and therefore the system couldn’t be relied upon to make accurate calculations. The problem became immediately apparent when Target opened its first three test stores. Fisher made the call to shut off the system and replenish manually. That meant store employees had to literally walk the floor and check each shelf—a laborious, error-laden process. (Auto-replenishment wasn’t switched back on until later that year.)

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To add even more headaches, the point-of-sale system was malfunctioning. The self-checkouts gave incorrect change. The cash terminals took unusually long to boot up and sometimes froze. Items wouldn’t scan, or the POS returned the incorrect price. Sometimes a transaction would appear to complete, and the customer would leave the store—but the payment never actually went through.

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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:

Professor Shark posted:

Winners is starting to look more and more like K Mart afaic

Captain Yossarian posted:

I actually stopped at a k Mart here because of this thread. A car crashed through the front doors months ago, and instead of fixing it, they have a plywood "wall" with a door set in it lol

XYZ posted:

because why the gently caress would you fix a k-mart?

CubanMissile posted:

How's Schlotsky's doing in the rest of the country? There were like two Las Vegas stores, the first one the franchiser got straight up evicted and the second one just closed. The second one always did have the same feeling of impending death that Kmart always has. I like their sandwiches.

Captain Yossarian posted:

I thought that, but just close it, is my opinion. I mean they went through the work of putting a sliding motion door or whatever in the middle of a piece of plywood. It was pretty great honestly

Tubesock Holocaust posted:

When was the last time anyone ate at Shoney's? Now there's a company that's slowly rotating towards oblivion.

VikingSkull posted:

Basically, if you say American car manufacturers are "complete poo poo" in TYOOL 2016 you're saying basically the same thing that your dad did in 1981 when he said Japanese cars are cheap steel that rusts and will never take market share from GM

1500quidporsche posted:

There used to be some reasonably good deals on clothing there but now half the store is just stocked with bed bath and beyond reject items and the men's clothing section is like 1/20th of the floor space.

Bulk Vanderhuge posted:

Here's a great article on Target's monumental gently caress up in Canada.

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-canada/

Captain Yossarian posted:

I like how circling the drain= brands you don't like. It's a good metric

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

K-Mart is huge in Australia FYI. It's probably the closest thing to Wal Mart here.

BigBoss posted:

A new batch of people turn 65 every day...

canyoneer posted:

There's an Ask/Tell thread about car buying so go there. They'll tell you the Honda Fit is a great car though

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

I've been looking to get a used honda fit. Does honda suck now or something?

blowfish posted:

For cameras, Leica essentially hand-manufactures the camera casing and optics, so you end up with above-average grade everything around a sensor of hit or miss quality. Another problem is that Leica is targeting an extremely niche market. The whole point of using a rangefinder is that it's a small inconspicuous camera you can carry around everywhere for e.g. street photography without being mugged at knifepoint in slums all the time. The completely insane cost of Leica Ms completely defeats the point of using a Leica for street journalism etc. when you could buy a literal bag of Fuji X-Pro 2s with a digitally enhanced rangefinder viewfinder, autofocus, and generally more modern guts in a slightly less tank-like case for the same price and just wreck one every year. The remaining market for Leica is therefore rich hipsters.

VikingSkull posted:

Basically, if you say American car manufacturers are "complete poo poo" in TYOOL 2016 you're saying basically the same thing that your dad did in 1981 when he said Japanese cars are cheap steel that rusts and will never take market share from GM

Wedemeyer posted:

Absolutely never. You go to the filipino place further down the block to get some pancit and lumpia and some bbq, remembering to take the meat off the skewer this time.


I can't even think of a thing that would pop into my head when I think of burger king. Then again all I'd eat as a kid was fries because the burgs were too big for a little 10 yo Wedemeyer's tummy.


Has anyone thrown National Geographic into the pool or are we still waiting to see how bad it gets?

Literal Nazi Furry posted:

burger king delivered to where I was in colorado and the weed was really cheap so that was fairly frequently